Devotional for Lent: Important words, said too late

8:07 PM,
Mar. 7, 2014

Written by

Tim McConnell
Devotional

We continue our series this week by discussing thoughts and ideas taken from "Seven Words To The Cross: A Lenten Study For Adults," by J. Kalas Ellsworth. We explore more words spoken to the cross and to Jesus, but words spoken too late.

History tells us that Pilate was a cruel, ruthless ruler who had no regard for human life. So when he became the decision-maker at Jesus' trial, he had no compassion for Jesus.

He had been disturbed from his sleep, and perhaps wanted to get things over very quickly. There is some indication that Pilate knew deep down inside of himself that Jesus was an innocent man, ...